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Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Latent Gene vFLIP Inhibits Viral Lytic Replication through NF-kappaB-Mediated Suppression of the AP-1 Pathway: A Novel Mechanism of Virus Control of Latency. Export

J Virol (27 February 2008)

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Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) latency is central to the evasion of host immune surveillances and induction of KSHV-related malignancies. The mechanism of KSHV latency remains unclear. Here, we show that KSHV latent gene vFLIP promotes viral latency by inhibiting viral lytic replication. vFLIP suppresses the AP-1 pathway, which is essential for KSHV lytic replication, by activating the NF-kappaB pathway. Thus, by manipulating two convergent cellular pathways, vFLIP regulates both cell survival and KSHV lytic replication to promote viral latency. These results also indicate that the effect of NF-kappaB pathway on KSHV replication is determined by the status of the AP-1 pathway, and hence provide a mechanistic explanation for the contradictory role of the NF-kappaB pathway in KSHV replication. Since the NF-kappaB pathway is commonly activated during infection of gammaherpesviruses, these findings might have general implications for the control of gammaherpesviral latency.


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